Blackfeather Woods Reading between text

He blundered into what he thought was a rock until he heard the alarm call ringing faintly. Then he felt the nip, heard the ferocious snarl.
Rowan growled, twisting himself to plant his jaws into the shoulder of whoever was attacking him.
Rowan had always been the biggest but whoever this was was bigger. Not that Rowan would let that stop him.
He snapped his head back after attempting to land a blow of retaliation then growled a warning, trying to prevent another attack, which was totally uncalled for.

Besides, why was he being attacked? He was minding his own business for once and he got jumped outta nowhere! This lent more anger to Rowan and he pushed up to wheel around and attack from above; hopefully the other was still on the ground flailing like an idiot. He probably hadn't had lessons in fighting.